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Focus (Forum & Focus)

Apr. 10, 2008

Court Control

Forum Column - By Andrew Bridges - A landmark decision will hopefully provide a case study of the effects of "permanent special master" supervision and control so that the practical wisdom and propriety of the practice may be discerned, Andrew Bridges writes.

FORUM COLUMN

By Andrew Bridges
This article appears on Page 4

      In the wake of the Supreme Court's ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, courts enforced school desegregation by ordering busing, appointing special masters and effectively taking control of school systems. In later years, courts enforced prisoners' civil rights in prison condition cases by appointing special masters and taking contr...

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